sean finney on 27 Jan 2005 03:38:41 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] 64 bit Linux


hi michael,

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:51:01PM -0500, Michael Lazin wrote:
> My linux box died a little while ago, and I am thinking about building
> an Athlon 64 machine to be my new linux box.  Does anyone in the group
> have experience with 64 bit linux?  What kind of 64 bit software is
> available?  I am leaning towards suse as a distro.  Any distro
> recommendations for 64 bit?  I am building this machine because I like
> to play around with hardware and I like to use Linux.  I am currently
> running my web and mail servers on (gasp) mac os x.  Maybe I will
> switch my servers over to this machine after I build it.

i am very happy with my debian sid am64.  it's not quite yet an official
debian arch, though there are a lot of folks out there using it.  it's
pure 64 bit kernel and userland, and i have a 32-bit chroot set up for
running mplayer, playing half-life 2 (via cedega), and building big
32-bit things on my fastest machine.

specs, if you're interested:

amd64 3500+
MSI Neo2 Platinum Motherboard
GeForce 4 Ti4200
2 GB RAM
A really nice  Lian Li case :)

i'm also very happy with the mobo, which has dual on-board ethernet (one
of which doesn't even touch the pci bus), firewire, s/pdif out, blah
blah....


	sean

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